I just realized I may have posted my question on the wrong section before. So here goes:
When I click on Headlines link from my site I get a blank page. When I tried to add a newsfeed the whole site disappeared. When I deleted it, the site reappeared.
while I was searching around to see if any one else had this problem I came across a nifty tip in the March newsletter (Thanks for the newsletter...I'm such a newbie!). I turned on debug for PHP and got the error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in .../html/modules/xoopsheadline/index.php on line 41
This is what I have on line 41:

$hlid = $headlines[0]->getVar('headline_id');

What should it be??